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Miles Archer

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Fri Apr 3, 2026, 07:58 PM Friday

Grampy wants "an 866% increase," $551 MILLION, over the 2025 fiscal budget, to "renovate his White House residence" [View all]

President Donald Trump seeks hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate the White House residence, according to a new budget request.

The administration’s fiscal 2026 proposal includes more than $377 million “for repairs and renovations to the executive residence,” with another $174 million projected for 2027, according to budget documents reported by Politico.

That represents “a mammoth 866 percent increase over the $39 million estimated to have been spent in fiscal 2025 on sprucing up the area of the White House where the president lives.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2676663322/

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